[53255] in Cypherpunks
Re: .sig followup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Thu Apr 4 20:59:31 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 19:02:46 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
At 8:32 PM 4/4/96, Rich Graves wrote:
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>CDAmeisters as an "invasion," but I really don't buy this stuff about
>Cyberspace (a word only Barlow can say with a straight face) being a new
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>"place." It's just a communications medium, no more and no less real than
>anything else. I think it would be better to stress that the online *is*
This is not true. I use the word "cyberspace" with a straight face. It has
long seemed perfectly descriptive to me.
This doesn't mean I buy Barlow's "let's just declare independence" schtick.
--Tim May
Boycott "Big Brother Inside" software!
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, we know that that ain't allowed.
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